The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
>
>>You would think the author would have taken the time to read in some
>>news.* groups and find out what's going on. My guess is he has no idea
>>about the spam problem, no idea that people are standing up to maintain
>>Usenet despite the (basically) attacks from Google. I doubt he has read a
>>newsgroup in many years, at least not via ggroups.
>>
>
>The ill informed needs an education!

That's true, but why are you wasting your time and mine posting about it
here? Why not email him or pcmag?
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On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 19:56:58 +0100, "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>D wrote:
>> a cheerful lying in state ceremony could be held after the 22
>> february deadline ... here lyeth google2news ... diis manibus ...
>> rest in peace
>
>You forgot the 'good riddance' bit...

the powers that be are invincible ... no one can fight city hall

On 12/16/23 11:22, Andy Burns wrote:
> Not many new/young users around ... and I sense the old timers don't
> want to invite people who can't find it for themselves?

Are we talking about Usenet and / or mainframes now?

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On 16/12/2023 16:04, Retro Guy wrote:
>
> My servers are not well known and small, so the numbers are small, but I
> see a 650% increase in daily sign-ups yesterday.

Me too. Unregistered user's are bored of limit's I have in my
openserver, and asked me to "register" an account via email.
And someone have tryied to "spam" with my server, but he bumped into my
filter on nnrp, and gave me an endless string of errors. I think he got
tired of receiving rejections xD

Sincerely

--
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Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:

> We could discover that people love dead things or things that won't
> die.
That is not dead which may eternal lie...

In article <ullbo2$5or$1@freeq.furie.org.uk>,
Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> wrote:
>Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:
>
>> We could discover that people love dead things or things that won't
>> die.
>That is not dead which may eternal lie...

Exactly!!
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On 16/12/2023 14:23, Retro Guy wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:14:29 +0100, Andrew wrote:
>
>> Julieta Shem wrote:
>>>
>>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
>>> Author: Rob Pegoraro
>>> Date: December 16, 2023
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
>>> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of
>>> Usenet’s developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin,
>>> shrugging off its possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20
>>> years is a great run for anything.”
>>>
>>> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> Source:
>>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-
> support
>>>
>>>
>> That article totally misses the point, absolutely clueless.
>
> Yep. It reads (to me anyway) as, "Google disconnects from Usenet, no way
> Usenet can survive without them."
>
> You would think the author would have taken the time to read in some
> news.* groups and find out what's going on. My guess is he has no idea
> about the spam problem, no idea that people are standing up to maintain
> Usenet despite the (basically) attacks from Google. I doubt he has read a
> newsgroup in many years, at least not via ggroups.

The photo he used to illustrate his artice is a screen shot of Google
Groups - but not of a usenet group - so I think you're right.

On 16/12/2023 13:49, Julieta Shem wrote:
>
> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
> Author: Rob Pegoraro
> Date: December 16, 2023
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of Usenet’s
> developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin, shrugging off its
> possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20 years is a great run
> for anything.”
>
> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Source:
> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support

Here's a much better article:

<https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/15/google-groups-is-dropping-usenet-support-and-that-is-a-good-thing/>

In article <ulmglp$2sdm1$1@dont-email.me>,
Richard Harnden <nospam.harnden@invalid.com> wrote:
>On 16/12/2023 14:23, Retro Guy wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:14:29 +0100, Andrew wrote:
>>
>>> Julieta Shem wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
>>>> Author: Rob Pegoraro
>>>> Date: December 16, 2023
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
>>>> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of
>>>> Usenet’s developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin,
>>>> shrugging off its possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20
>>>> years is a great run for anything.”
>>>>
>>>> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>> Source:
>>>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-
>> support
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That article totally misses the point, absolutely clueless.
>>
>> Yep. It reads (to me anyway) as, "Google disconnects from Usenet, no way
>> Usenet can survive without them."
>>
>> You would think the author would have taken the time to read in some
>> news.* groups and find out what's going on. My guess is he has no idea
>> about the spam problem, no idea that people are standing up to maintain
>> Usenet despite the (basically) attacks from Google. I doubt he has read a
>> newsgroup in many years, at least not via ggroups.
>
>The photo he used to illustrate his artice is a screen shot of Google
>Groups - but not of a usenet group - so I think you're right.
>
>

The Lame stream media does it again!
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In article <ulmifv$2su1k$1@dont-email.me>,
Richard Harnden <nospam.harnden@invalid.com> wrote:
>On 16/12/2023 13:49, Julieta Shem wrote:
>>
>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
>> Author: Rob Pegoraro
>> Date: December 16, 2023
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
>> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of Usenet’s
>> developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin, shrugging off its
>> possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20 years is a great run
>> for anything.”
>>
>> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Source:
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support
>
>Here's a much better article:
>
><https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/15/google-groups-is-dropping-usenet-support-and-that-is-a-good-thing/>
>

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On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 10:28:15 +0000, Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> wrote:
>On 16/12/2023 13:49, Julieta Shem wrote:
>> Source:
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support
>
>Here's a much better article:
><https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/15/google-groups-is-dropping-usenet-support-and-that-is-a-good-thing/>

(using Tor Browser 13.0.6)
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/12/15/google-groups-is-dropping-usenet-support-and-that-is-a-good-thing/
>Google Groups is dropping Usenet support, and that is a good thing
>Martin Brinkmann
>Dec 15, 2023
>Google
>Listen to article 2 minutes
>Google announced this week that it plans to cut the ties to the Usenet in
>Google Groups. Starting February 22, 2024, Google Groups users can no longer
>post content to Usenet groups, subscribe to Usenet groups or view Usenet
>content published after February 22.
>Native Google Groups content and communities continue to be available, as the
>change does not impact them. Google notes further that it will disband its
>Usenet infrastructure. These servers can not be used anymore to interact with
>the Usenet according to the announcement.
>Google explains that activity in text-based Usenet groups has declined over
>the years. Large parts of the userbase have moved on to "more modern
>technologies and formats". The majority of content that is available on the
>Usenet is either binary files or spam, according to Google.
>The Spam problem
>While Google mentions that spam is a problem, it fails to point out that most
>of the spam posted to text-based Usenet groups originates from Google Groups.
>In fact, many Usenet regulars started to use filters to weed out anything
>that comes from Google Groups as a method to eliminate spam in their
>subscribed groups.
>The tie cutting is therefore a welcome change for many Usenet users who are
>subscribed to text-based groups on the Usenet. Come February 2024, spam will
>drop to levels that are significantly lower than current levels.
>What users can do about it
>The shutting down of the news server is the main problem for users. They need
>to find another service that offers newsgroup access. One free option to
>access text-based groups is provided by Eternal September.
>Besides having to find a new provider, users need to find a new client as well.
>Several free clients are available, including Mozilla Thunderbird, which
>supports newsgroups. You can check out Wikipedia's list of Usenet readers here.
>Content posted before February 22, 2024 continues to be available on Google
>Groups, according to Google.
>Closing Words
>Google ending support for Usenet in Google Groups and disbanding its
>infrastructure is certainly disruptive for users who used the service to
>interact with the Usenet. On the other hand, it resolves a long-standing spam
>problem that Google did nothing about.
>Now You: do you use the Usenet?
[end quote]

e.g. double-clicking <news:news.admin.net-abuse.usenet> works great using
a dedicated newsreader, but experts say this does not work in Thunderbird;
also, many usenet news servers have retained all or part of "googlegroups"
posted articles, so they too will have "content posted before 22 february
2024" and with the looming spam void expected after google cuts the chord,
some spam has always come from other servers so who can predict that they
won't do their level best to pick up the slack? troll farms are pervasive

On 12/16/23 12:41, Julieta Shem wrote:
> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> writes:
>
>> candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> And this is what I was worried about, potential new users seeing this
>>> and writing off Usenet as a dead service. Most people probably didn't
>>> know what Usenet was beforehand..
>
> Remember that potential users had not even heard of USENET until now
> that Google gave it this amazing press (of the new dead thing). We
> could discover that people love dead things or things that won't die.
> Die Hard was a popular movie some time. Speaking of movies...

Fair enough. I thought USENET was dead too, but looked it up out of
curiosity.

>> Surely you can find something else to worry about. How about that asteroid
>> collision that will trigger an [apocalyptic] event?
>>
>> Can everyone help the O.P. by suggesting things to be overly dramatic
>> about?
>
> One suggestion that follows-up on yours is to watch Melancholia from
> 2011. Here's the official trailer:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZGwvxhXvw

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On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:49:50 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:

> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support Author: Rob
> Pegoraro
> Date: December 16, 2023
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of Usenet’s
> developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin, shrugging off its
> possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20 years is a great run
> for anything.”
>
> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Source:
> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-
support

I agree its nothing like it used to be, but dying?

Past 24 hours Articles In: 74139

In article <657fb52b$1@news.ausics.net>, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:49:50 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>
>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support Author: Rob
>> Pegoraro
>> Date: December 16, 2023
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
>> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of Usenet’s
>> developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin, shrugging off its
>> possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20 years is a great run
>> for anything.”
>>
>> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Source:
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-
>support
>
>
>I agree its nothing like it used to be, but dying?
>
>Past 24 hours Articles In: 74139
>
>
>
>

Pcmag is an online rag!
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On 16/12/2023 13:49, Julieta Shem wrote:
>
> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
> Author: Rob Pegoraro
> Date: December 16, 2023
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of Usenet’s
> developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin, shrugging off its
> possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20 years is a great run
> for anything.”
>
> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Source:
> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support

Another article:

<https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/18/google_ends_usenet_links/>

"
Google Groups has announced it will end support for Usenet – a
significant change that undoes one of the early decisions that propelled
the search and ads giant to dominance.

Usenet predated the world wide web by more than a decade and comprised a
federated set of newsgroups – threaded conversations that weren't vastly
different to the format still used by communities like the Linux Kernel
Mailing List. Most newsgroups used the Network News Transfer Protocol
(NNTP) so its content could be shared across the constellation of
servers accessed by end users. Those servers were needed because in the
early days of the public internet it was not always easy to retrieve
info from distant servers without waiting an eternity. And with early
internet accounts usually limited by connection time rather than
download capacity, federated content made a lot of sense.

Myriad newsgroups proliferated, and in 1995 a biz called Deja archived
as many of them as it could find and made them searchable – at about the
same time early search engines like AltaVista and Yahoo! did likewise
for the web.

Deja eventually floundered, and in 2001 then three-year-old Google
acquired its Usenet archive [...]
"

They have an active comments section. The article is currently on thier
home page, so should get quite busy.

noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:

> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:49:50 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>
>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support

[...]

>> Source:
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support
>
> I agree its nothing like it used to be, but dying?
>
> Past 24 hours Articles In: 74139

Cool info. Is that with or without spam?

On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:17:15 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:

> noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:49:50 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>>
>>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
>
> [...]
>
>>> Source:
>>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-
support
>>
>> I agree its nothing like it used to be, but dying?
>>
>> Past 24 hours Articles In: 74139
>
> Cool info. Is that with or without spam?

I'd imagine it would include some spam that gets past our filters, but I
don't see any in the groups I sub to. It doesnt include anything from
google who are ousted for some time.

noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:

> On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:17:15 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>
>> noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:
>>
>>> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:49:50 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>>>
>>>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>> Source:
>>>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-
> support
>>>
>>> I agree its nothing like it used to be, but dying?
>>>
>>> Past 24 hours Articles In: 74139
>>
>> Cool info. Is that with or without spam?
>
> I'd imagine it would include some spam that gets past our filters, but I
> don't see any in the groups I sub to. It doesnt include anything from
> google who are ousted for some time.

Great info. Thanks!

In article <87jzp95ysz.fsf@yaxenu.org>, Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> wrote:
>noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:17:15 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>>
>>> noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:49:50 -0300, Julieta Shem wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>> Source:
>>>>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-
>> support
>>>>
>>>> I agree its nothing like it used to be, but dying?
>>>>
>>>> Past 24 hours Articles In: 74139
>>>
>>> Cool info. Is that with or without spam?
>>
>> I'd imagine it would include some spam that gets past our filters, but I
>> don't see any in the groups I sub to. It doesnt include anything from
>> google who are ousted for some time.
>
>Great info. Thanks!

pcmag is out to lunch!
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Julieta Shem wrote:
>
> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
> Author: Rob Pegoraro
> Date: December 16, 2023
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of Usenet’s
> developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin, shrugging off its
> possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20 years is a great run
> for anything.”
>
> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Source:
> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support
>

Slashdot.org is carrying that story today (my timezone) and it is
amazing the number of supposedly tech-orientated people who believe that
crap.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/20/2147253/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet
I did not bother complaining to zdnet or the original author, I did
weigh in on the Slashdot discussion. Unfortunately it was around 10
hours after that article was posted and the ill-informed had all already
posted and moved on.

Andrew wrote:

> Slashdot.org is carrying that story today (my timezone) and it is
> amazing the number of supposedly tech-orientated people who believe that
> crap.
> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/20/2147253/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet
> I did not bother complaining to zdnet or the original author, I did
> weigh in on the Slashdot discussion.  Unfortunately it was around 10
> hours after that article was posted and the ill-informed had all already
> posted and moved on.

Not a particularly active thread as far as slashdot goes (or used to go)
more of a "feh, who cares?"

In article <um171h$qr8s$1@paganini.bofh.team>,
Andrew <Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov> wrote:
>Julieta Shem wrote:
>>
>> Title: End of an Era: Google Groups to Drop Usenet Support
>> Author: Rob Pegoraro
>> Date: December 16, 2023
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> In early 2000, I wrote a column for the Washington Post about the
>> growing uselessness of many newsgroups in which I quoted one of Usenet’s
>> developers, computer-science professor Steve Bellovin, shrugging off its
>> possible demise: “Times and technologies change--20 years is a great run
>> for anything.”
>>
>> Almost 24 years later, that quote has held up better than Usenet.
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Source:
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support
>>
>
>Slashdot.org is carrying that story today (my timezone) and it is
>amazing the number of supposedly tech-orientated people who believe that
>crap.
>https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/20/2147253/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet
>I did not bother complaining to zdnet or the original author, I did
>weigh in on the Slashdot discussion. Unfortunately it was around 10
>hours after that article was posted and the ill-informed had all already
>posted and moved on.

Stupid as stupid can be!
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In article <kuilrvFb0bnU2@mid.individual.net>,
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>Andrew wrote:
>
>> Slashdot.org is carrying that story today (my timezone) and it is
>> amazing the number of supposedly tech-orientated people who believe that
>> crap.
>> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/20/2147253/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet
>> I did not bother complaining to zdnet or the original author, I did
>> weigh in on the Slashdot discussion.  Unfortunately it was around 10
>> hours after that article was posted and the ill-informed had all already
>> posted and moved on.
>
>Not a particularly active thread as far as slashdot goes (or used to go)
>more of a "feh, who cares?"

Shasldimwits!
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Andy Burns wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>
>> Slashdot.org is carrying that story today (my timezone) and it is
>> amazing the number of supposedly tech-orientated people who believe
>> that crap.
>> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/20/2147253/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet
>>
>> I did not bother complaining to zdnet or the original author, I did
>> weigh in on the Slashdot discussion.  Unfortunately it was around 10
>> hours after that article was posted and the ill-informed had all
>> already posted and moved on.
>
> Not a particularly active thread as far as slashdot goes (or used to go)
> more of a "feh, who cares?"

Look at the comment counts on the other articles, should I change the
Subject above for this reply?
"Slashdot considered near death - USENET".
Remember the "Slashdot effect"? That was decades ago.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:20:17 +0100, Andrew <Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov> wrote:
>Julieta Shem wrote:
snip
>> Source:
>> https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support
>
>Slashdot.org is carrying that story today (my timezone) and it is
>amazing the number of supposedly tech-orientated people who believe that
>crap.
>https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/20/2147253/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet
>I did not bother complaining to zdnet or the original author, I did
>weigh in on the Slashdot discussion. Unfortunately it was around 10
>hours after that article was posted and the ill-informed had all already
>posted and moved on.

they are only doing their duty . . . propagating the narrative